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Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), i.e., grounding a natural language sentence which indicates complex human activities in a long and untrimmed video sequence, has received unprecedented attentions over the last few years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Yitian Yuan , Xiaohan Lan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), which aims to ground a natural language sentence in an untrimmed video, has drawn widespread attention over the past few years. However, recent studies have found that current benchmark datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Lin Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), the task of localizing video segments from text queries, struggles in open-world settings due to limited dataset scale and semantic diversity, causing performance gaps between common and rare concepts. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Minghang Zheng , Zihao Yin , Yi Yang , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Visual grounding is a long-lasting problem in vision-language understanding due to its diversity and complexity. Current practices concentrate mostly on performing visual grounding in still images or well-trimmed video clips. This work, on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qianyu Feng , Yunchao Wei , Mingming Cheng , Yi Yang

Recently, researchers have attempted to investigate the capability of LLMs in handling videos and proposed several video LLM models. However, the ability of LLMs to handle video grounding (VG), which is an important time-related video task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Feng , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zeyang Zhang , Houlun Chen , Zihan Song , Yuwei Zhou , Yuekui Yang , Haiyang Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Natural Language Video Grounding (NLVG) aims to localize time segments in an untrimmed video according to sentence queries. In this work, we present a new paradigm named Explore-And-Match for NLVG that seamlessly unifies the strengths of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sangmin Woo , Jinyoung Park , Inyong Koo , Sumin Lee , Minki Jeong , Changick Kim

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to locate specific temporal segments from an untrimmed video based on a linguistic query. Most existing VTG models are trained on extensive annotated video-text pairs, a process that not only introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yifang Xu , Yunzhuo Sun , Zien Xie , Benxiang Zhai , Sidan Du

Existing Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) models excel in accuracy but often overlook open-world challenges posed by open-vocabulary queries and untrimmed videos. This leads to unreliable predictions for noisy, corrupted, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kaijing Ma , Haojian Huang , Jin Chen , Haodong Chen , Pengliang Ji , Xianghao Zang , Han Fang , Chao Ban , Hao Sun , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we study the problem of temporal video grounding (TVG), which aims to predict the starting/ending time points of moments described by a text sentence within a long untrimmed video. Benefiting from fine-grained 3D visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Sijia Liu , Ke Ding

Event cameras offer microsecond-level latency and robustness to motion blur, making them ideal for understanding dynamic environments. Yet, connecting these asynchronous streams to human language remains an open challenge. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lingdong Kong , Dongyue Lu , Ao Liang , Rong Li , Yuhao Dong , Tianshuai Hu , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the temporal boundaries of a query-relevant moment in long, untrimmed videos, making video-language-model (VLM) pipelines prohibitively expensive. While recent training-free visual token pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiaqi Li , Shuntian Zheng , Yixian Shen , Jia-Hong Huang , Xiaoman Lu , Minzhe Ni , Yu Guan

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Video grounding aims to localize the corresponding video moment in an untrimmed video given a language query. Existing methods often address this task in an indirect way, by casting it as a proposal-and-match or fusion-and-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Fengyuan Shi , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Video prediction is commonly referred to as forecasting future frames of a video sequence provided several past frames thereof. It remains a challenging domain as visual scenes evolve according to complex underlying dynamics, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hafez Farazi , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Text-to-video diffusion models generate realistic videos, but often fail on prompts requiring fine-grained compositional understanding, such as relations between entities, attributes, actions, and motion directions. We hypothesize that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ariel Shaulov , Eitan Shaar , Amit Edenzon , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

Video temporal grounding (VTG) takes an untrimmed video and a natural-language query as input and localizes the temporal moment that best matches the query. Existing methods rely on large, task-specific datasets requiring costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Minjoon Jung , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Lorenzo Torresani

We study visually grounded VideoQA in response to the emerging trends of utilizing pretraining techniques for video-language understanding. Specifically, by forcing vision-language models (VLMs) to answer questions and simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Junbin Xiao , Angela Yao , Yicong Li , Tat Seng Chua

Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Guoshun Nan , Rui Qiao , Yao Xiao , Jun Liu , Sicong Leng , Hao Zhang , Wei Lu